Last months in Asia were really tough, there is Europe ahead of me.. I’m looking forward to the next level of the journey. Now from all the Tetris blocks I need to build everything from the scratch. I’m curious where it will lead me to.

First stop on our road is Arles Festival. I feel like at home here. the same camping, the same venues, the same restaurant at Lougi with ‘No pizzas here’ sign. Usually I don’t like doing the same thing but Arles and the festival is an exception. Interesting exhibitions, little retrospection, combination that inspires me a lot..we have a lot of new ideas with N, now we only have to find time to make them happen.

I needed that time in Dubai, I knew when I will arrive to Poland I won’t have time to relax. Since I returned to Warsaw my life became like arcade game. Now I am a tall Latin American guy, my name is Antonio, I drive a lowrider and I have a FU CK OFF tattoo on my wrist. I live in GTA game.

Since I’ve been in Warsaw I had endless list of things to do, check points and goals. Each day I have slept in a different place, I’ve worked as a mechanic, built sweat lodge, flooded hotel with N!, fixed Alans car, danced at best friends wedding, cycled with my niece through Warsaw, traipsed with friends.

I changed cars almost everyday to that point that neighbour of my brother envied me.

I have itchy feet, can’t stay long in one place. Today I go to another level of my game, we are heading south of Europe.

I got stuck in Dubai, second time in a row.. I cannot go out.. I’m hostage of duty free zone.. and I really want to go to my Krakozhia.

Last time I’ve been here with N! We rushed to see the city cause we knew we wouldn’t come back ..

This time I decided not to move from the terminal.. and it was a good decision. I’m suspended in vacuo.. I’m not in a hurry, nobody want’s anything from me.. from a distance I can watch how others rush.. I’m invisible.
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Since more than a month N! is travelling and I have my watch in Shanghai. Thomas Hudson from “Islands in the Stream ” used to say that there are two ways to solve a hard situation: hard work or a hard drinking.

K – When you are crazy than in a place like that you feel the best. I am fascinated by Japan, first was Tokyo that gave me a lot of mood swings but also deepen my feelings for Japan. Recently we went to Kyoto and Osaka.

K- we found ourselves at Geishas, Love Hotels and Gogo bars district. Looking for a place for the last sake of the day we ended up in a little alley with thousand of different sounds coming from many places around us. When we heard a female singing behind one doors we were convinced it must have been one of the prositutes. This way we managed to join the smallest KTV party with most wonderful 80-year olds in town.

K- It’s nearly the last post from Saigon, we leave it behind. Maybe we have had enough of Asia, that’s why we did not really feel Vietnam the way we should….ot maybe we did not have enough time to get to know it better.

N- It’s a shame that a great documentary film called ‘Last Days in Vietnam’ we saw after we came back. I started to look at Vietnam and its history and relations between North and East in a different light. Nowadays in Vietnam the history is mostly visible on all the souvenirs you can get. As it turned out- war, death and tragedy can also be sold.

N- Some people just make you smile. you see them, you see how happy and cheerful they are and it hits you right away. Chinese people, when you pass them on the street are just like Polish people – sad, grim, despressed. So when I see a smile like that, I can’t help but smile too.

K – This is the end.. there won’t be more photos from this year holidays.. that’s the last ‘Stardust memories’..The whole time in Europe was amazing.. I’d love to do it again.. wake up every morning with the same music from the alarm clock like Phil..

I felt in love with Italy, those 6 am coffees in the bars next to highways full of drivers drinking their first espresso.. I changed my discouragement to France.. for Arles the best photo festival I’ve ever been.. I assured myself that in one of my lifes I’d be able to live in Berlin or Amsterdam.. and again I discovered Mazury, Katowice and Warsaw…

Thank you to all that helped me .. the list is long.. especially I’d like to thank N!

PS Now I am in China, In fumes of hot air from AC, lying on sofa .. 19th floor.. and the winter begins